LOCKDOWN

I worry about this in conjunction with talk of "regional lockdowns". You can bet that the poorest and most underfunded areas will be the last to get their economies going again. Is this managed decline?

789 dead from Coronavirus in just 48 hours in the UK.

Schools open Monday.

Johnson's refusal to allow Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance to answer any questions about Dominic Cummings yesterday was laughable. To be fair, I don't think either of them wanted to and I can understand that, but they can say that for themselves. Whitty's response when he was finally allowed one could be read as "you don't want to know what I think about it".

Debatable whether it's even a "political question" as Johnson keeps saying. Cummings isn't a politician. Well, not officially anyway!

Cummings saw Boris, Hancock and Whitty get CV. Everyone around him was dropping like flies so he grabbed his family and ran for the hills. I probably would've done the same.

Now why didn't he just say this instead of trying to weasel his way out of it? Yes he would've got flack for not following guidelines, but people would have understood and forgiven him for it.

by the way my brother has no interest in poltics never has

Not really extreme, in comparison with what’s going on. He’s the Prime Minister’s Chief Advisor and clearly the advice he’s giving is pretty shit. Otherwise we wouldn’t have the World’s worst death rate.
The whole easing of the lockdown is a joke. Covid-19 is now more prevalent than when restrictions were introduced so I can only surmise this Government is looking for some positive news headlines to distract from their criminally poor handling of the crisis. A second wave is on its way and these clowns in charge will be culpable.

Cummings: “herd immunity, protect the economy, and if that means some pensioners die, too bad.”

I would be interested as to where you heard him say that 

A cautious approach is the best approach

Sweden proves that for me. Taking a gamble on no lockdown, even if it pays off, was the wrong thing to do when lives are at stake, but the fact that their death rate is way ahead of other Scandanavian countries suggests it hasn't worked.

And I do think general bad behaviour from governments has a detrimental effect on how countries fight the pandemic, that's why the Cummings fiasco and pathetic defence of it is about more than Cummings himself. I don't think it's any coincidence that some of the worst affected countries are the ones with absolute clowns in charge - us, the US and Brazil for a start.

Although this situation is awful, I really don't think as a politician it's that difficult to manage. It's an easy vote winner, in fact. All you've got to do is listen to scientists, give clear advice, respect it yourself and show compassion, but the likes of Johnson and Bolsanero can't do that, and Trump is just extraordinary. The highest death toll in the world, coupled with a crisis in policing and black riots, and what's he spending his time doing? Trying to shut down Twitter for deleting one of his tweets! The guy needs removing.

Whereas Johnson has been sacked from a previous job with a newspaper for making up quotes.

The people aren’t dying quick enough.